Robbins' New York is the world of big business and the men and women who make it big. Honor and decency are nothing in a city where respect is measured by the size of your expense account. And it's the city that Brad Rowan, a man on the make, hopes to conquer on his climb to the top, bringing with him the women he loves, uses, and destroys.Drawing from his own experiences in New York, Robbins vividly portrays our eternal desire for greed, desire, and blind ambition, in this timeless tale of success and struggle in the city that never sleeps. Review"Robbins' dialogue is moving . . . his people have the warmth of life."--The New York Times"Robbins has the ability to hold his readers absorbed."--*Chicago Tribune* "His characters are compelling, his dialogue is dramatic, and his style is simple and straightforward."--The Los Angeles Times "Robbins' books are packed with action, sustained by a strong narrative drive, and are given vitality by his own colorful life."---The Wall Street Journal"Harold Robbins is a master!"--PlayboyAbout the AuthorBorn in 1916 in New York City, Harold Robbins was a millionaire by the time he was twenty. He lost his fortune by speculating on the price of sugar before the outbreak of World War II. Later, his fabulously successful career as a novelist, with many of his books turned into movies, would once again make him incredibly wealthy. For many years, Robbins enjoyed the high life among the rich and famous; he owned a huge yacht and had houses on the French Riviera and in Beverly Hills. His novels often mirrored his own experiences and were often people with the characters he had met. He died at the age of eighty-one, survived by his wife, Jann, and his two daughters, Caryn and Andreana.

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America's First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it's the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Oregon."Lucky at cards, unlucky in love." Tell's words as they left the casino brought the haunted look back into Andrea's eyes. The skiing holiday in Squaw Valley was all she'd hoped for. And she had totally ignored the warning voices that cautioned her to stay away from Tell Stafford. A lot of girls indulged in harmless flirtations. Why shouldn't she? But Andrea and Tell had fallen deeply in love, and now it was too late. Andra knew that if she revealed her terrible secret, everything would change....

From the inside flapBrian W. Aldiss is one of the greatest science fiction writes of our day. Now he has broken away from his traditional style to produce a stunning blend of horror, excitement, suspense and love, throwing a unique, contemporary slant on the great gothic tradition.When Joe Bodenland is suddenly transported back in time to the year 1816, his first reaction is of eager curiosity rather than distress. Certainly the Switzerland in which he finds himself, with its charming country inns, breathtaking landscapes and gentle, unmechanized pace of life, is infinitely preferable to the America of 2020 where the games of politicians threaten total annihilation. But after meeting the brooding young Victor Frankenstein, Joe realized that this world is more complex than the one he lift behind. Is Frankenstein real, or are both Joe and he living out fictional lives? And if he is caught inside the gothic drama, how is it that he meets Frankenstein's creator, the slim, enchanting Mary Shelley, whose book lies half written, gathering dust in the attic of the villa on the shores of Lake Geneva.Curiosity and a half-forgotten sense of history lead Joe to the villa, where he is eventually welcomed by Lord Byron—even more devastating than his legend—and delicate Percy Shelley, who has taken refuge with Byron and his mistress. But it is with Mary, Shelley's future wife, that Joe's destiny lies, and somehow also with Frankenstein. For even while Mary and Joe enjoy their idyll, Frankenstein wreaks havoc in the town of Geneva with his nameless monster built from corpses. Joe, caught between the romantic trio by the lake and the nightmare couple, cannot decide whether he has been sent as Mary's muse or Frankenstein's conscience, but with the grim climax in the frozen wastes of time he finally understands and fulfills his mission."Aldiss's tale is hair-raising... yet, at the same time, serious, He is saying that the true purpose of the Gothic novel is a sensational awakening of conscience."—Ronald Blythe, The Listener"Frankenstein Unbound is a literary piece of science fiction of a high order... Brian Aldiss is our ablest science fiction writer..."—Robert Nye, The Guardian"The mating dance of the two monsters has a macabre beauty quite new to me. And the implication for our own day, that the modern world is a Frankenstein's monster, a body without a spirit, is clear without being insistent."—Kingsley Amis, The Daily Mail"Audacious of Mr. Aldiss to carry through the original idea in this way; splendid to realise that it comes off so well."—Tom Hutchinson, The Times (London)"With Frankensteing Unbound, Brian Aldiss has taken more risks than he has ever taken before; and this is saying quite a lot... This is surely Mr. Aldiss's finest achievement in the non-realistic field yet; it is original and carefully done."—Martin Seymour-Smith, Oxford Mail"Mr. Aldiss's monster is a beaut. The eerie, icy, last confrontation between it (and its mate) and Joe Bodenland with his Felder car and swivel-gun is intense and vivid."—Edmund Cooper, The London Sunday TimesJoe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. This title was made into a film, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric and Michael Hutchence.About the AuthorBrian Wilson Aldiss was born in East Dareham, Norfolk, in 1925 and has written over 40 novels and over 300 short stories, making him one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. He worked as a Bookseller in Oxford between 1947 and 1956 during which he wrote his first novel The Brightfount Diaries. His first work of science fiction was Non-Stop (1958) and he won the Most Promising New Author award at the SF convention the following year. At this time his work was characterised by innovative literary techniques and a high sexual content. In 1962 Hothouse won a Hugo award given by the World Science Fiction Society and in the seventies he explored the experiences of a young soldier in The Horatio Stubbs Saga novels. With Frankenstein Unbound and Moreau’s Other Island he paid tribute to two founders of SF - Mary Shelley and H.G. Wells. By the time of the release of the well received Hellinconia sequence he had become one of the most prominent British SF writers rivalling such fellow authors as J.G.Ballard and Michael Moorcock Since 1961 Aldiss has edited anthologies including SF Horizons and has regularly reviewed for the TLS as well as numerous newspapers. Other works include a history of SF, Billion Year Spree, an autobiography Twinkling of an Eye and some poetry. In 1999 he became A Grand Master at the Nebula awards given by the SF and Fantasy Writers Guild for his lifetime achievements in SF writing.

Harriet the Spy refuses to become ruffled when an unidentified person starts leaving disturbing notes all over the quiet little beach town of Water Mill. She's determined to discover the author of the notes. And she drags her best friend, mousy Beth Ellen, into all kinds of odd and embarrassing situations in her efforts to reveal the culprit. Observing in her own special, caustic way with her ever-present notebook, Harriet the Spy is on the case. But will she be ready to face the truth when she finds it?From the Trade Paperback edition.

Best known for his play R.U.R. -- (Rossum's Universal Robots). The mechanical robot (a term coined by Čapek from the Czech word "robota" meaning drudgery) opened up a whole new world of Science Fiction, as well as adding a word to the English Language.

Detective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government. It will take all of Nigel's brilliance and Georgia's bravery if they are to infiltrate the order and unmask the conspirators.

When Anne Terry goes missing one-armed detective Dan Fortune starts to look into her past and discovers that there is more than one past for the missing actress.

"McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCERUsually women came to take refuge aboard The Busted Flush. But this time a man stumbled on board, a walking zombie who fell into bed. Turned out poor Arthur Wilkinson was the latest victim of a fragile-looking blonde sexpot who used the blackest arts of love to lure unsuspecting suckers into a web of sordid schemes. Travis had thought he'd have a quiet summer. Instead he took on the most cunning, heartless, vicious con artists he'd ever met....

It had been a year since I’d seen Hazel — six months in prison and six months running. We’d struck sparks from each other in the past. I had followed Hazel to her ranch, but now I wondered if it was over…. Finally she walked to my chair. She didn’t say anything. She took my hand and we went upstairs. Her bedroom was large and airy. She sat down and pulled off her boots. I stood in the center of the floor and watched while she straightened up again and whisked the belt from her Levi’s. She skinned them down over her hips and kicked them to one side. Her panties followed, and from her socks to the bottom edge of her buckskin vest there was just Hazel.

Twenty-five men and women against a world of evolution gone mad! Here is the vivid story of their adventures and terrors - the monster in the forest - the city of giant beavers - and the secret of the incredible race that had supplanted mankind.

Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt is Richard Brautigan's eighth poetry publication and includes 58 poems. The title of the book echoes a 1942 San Francisco Chronicle headline describing a successful operation by Rommel during the North African Campaign ofWorld War II. The six line title poem, reminiscent of Ozymandias, uses this headline to examine the transitory nature of both human endeavor and the reader of the poem. The photograph on the cover of the first softcover edition was taken by Edmund Shea in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

THOMAS BURNETT SWANN“He writes his own golden thing his own way. . .”—Theodore Sturgeon, New York Times“Swann’s neo-romantic fantasies of the past are unique. He uses the stuff of myth with twists and inventions of his own.”— The Village Voice, New YorkGolden... unique…many have been the words used by readers of Swann’s marvelous fantasy novels. But this weaver of wonders will weave his tales no more.CRY SILVER BELLS may be his last, for its talented author passed away shortly after sending it to DAW for publication.It is, like all his works, a delectable fantasia of the mythical past. It is the story of the last of the fabled Minotaurs, a tale of the shadowy world of Minoan Crete, of the pre-humans who found refuge there, and of wanderers who came among them….CRY SILVER BELLS will stand alongside GREEN PHOENIX, THE MINIKINS OF YAM, and his others as unmatched peaks of colorful imaginative talent.

Amazon.com ReviewA Civil War sword, missing roller skates, a trapeze artist's inheritance, a ghost who whistles, eight stuffed penguins... Is there any case this kid can't crack? Introduce your favorite bookworm to boy detective Encyclopedia Brown, fifth-grade mastermind behind Idaville's police force, "a complete library walking around in sneakers." Each book is set up so that readers can try to solve the case along with the boy genius, and the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back. This introductory set includes four paperbacks: Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective (Book 1), Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch (Book 2), Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues (Book 3), and Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man (Book 4). (Ages 7 to 12) Product DescriptionLeroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville neighborhood’s ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. And with ten confounding mysteries in each book, not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them, but the reader is given all the clues as well. Interactive and chock full of interesting bits of information—it’s classic Encyclopedia Brown!